Clive Myrie brings us a cultural tour of the Caribbean in a new travel series…
CLIVE MYRIE’S CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE BBC2 MON-WEDS & FRI
This new 15-parter sees news presenter Clive Myrie travel across four islands of the Caribbean, showing us the vibrant vistas, tremendous tucker and colourful culture of Jamaica, Barbados, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
Inside TV had a lovely chat with the MasterMind host to find out more…
Hi Clive! You meet up with your sister Judith in the first episode…
Yes, my parents moved to Britain in the early 60s. Judith had always planned to move back to Jamaica – and she did, bizarrely, just in time for our filming! She’s in Portland, and it’s magical. We pick coffee in the Blue Mountains – best coffee in the world! – and we talk about what it means for her to be back in Jamaica. It was wonderful.
And you go to Boston Bay, the home of Jerk cooking. Did it inspire you to cook anything back home?
My wife would say I don’t cook enough! [laughs] But when I do cook, it tends to be West Indian food, things like rice and peas and Jerk chicken. What I reacquainted myself with was what they call ‘hard foods’: so yam, cassava, breadfruit – things that I grew up with in Bolton from my Caribbean parents, but that I didn’t actually like much at the time. I’m gonna have to lay this out there now: Jamaican food is easily the best of the four islands. Cuban
